What did you do today?

So what do I do every day at work?

The best answer is that no day is ever the same. And I love it.

Today, I found myself in the Soccer Dome on campus watching about 50 high school students learn how to play Ultimate Frisbee…

It started about a week ago when I got a phone call from a local urban, alternative high school coordinator for at risk students. He mentioned a program called urban immersion where two other high school groups would come into the city, meet the urban hs students and then have several experiences in the community.  He wondered if there was any space for them to do something here at the college.

After a few quick emails and running into a few students that I had previously met, we had the Dome reserved, and college students ready to teach high school students how to play Frisbee.

I cannot express the amount of fun I had watching my students teaching a wide variety of high school students how to play and then playing frisbee with them. With some convincing, I even got sucked into a game and ran around with the rest of them for a while.

So for two hours my job was to watch a bunch of students, have fun, develop skills, and learn new things. I even got some good exercise out of it, and gained instant cred with the members of the college Frisbee team.

Hmmm… So am I okay with running around campus in warm-ups one day and heels the next? Yeah, because then, as a student told me yesterday, “You are a real person”. I can deal with that for a job that I really like.